[SOLVED] Trying to install arch, but I got an error. | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

timber burrow Aug 21, 2025, 12:45 PM

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I want to dualboot windows and arch and I have selected to format and mount as / the partition where arch will be installed and I mounted boot as /boot/efi. What did I do wrong?

https://0x0.st/Kz5u.log

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prisma turtle Aug 21, 2025, 12:49 PM

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Could you try doing that again? Make sure to use manual partitioning, make sure to pick a proper filesystem, mount that partition as /, mount your FAT32 EFI partition as /boot (not /boot/efi - deprecated) and make sure it has the boot and esp flags

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The install log says there weren't any mount points

timber burrow Aug 21, 2025, 12:50 PM

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I was using manual partitioning

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Lemme try again

prisma turtle Aug 21, 2025, 12:51 PM

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Take a picture of the partitions layout

timber burrow Aug 21, 2025, 12:51 PM

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Kk

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A ty z Polski wgl?

prisma turtle Aug 21, 2025, 12:51 PM

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boykisser_meow

timber burrow Aug 21, 2025, 12:53 PM

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87.9GB Windows 10 Pro

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150GB for arch

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@prisma turtle

prisma turtle Aug 21, 2025, 12:57 PM

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Okay

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First of all that EFI partition might be too small

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I recommend making a separate one

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So there's a smaller chance of Windows fucking your Linux bootloader up

timber burrow Aug 21, 2025, 12:59 PM

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A separate boot partition?

prisma turtle Aug 21, 2025, 1:00 PM

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Yes. The default configuration of grub + kernel + initramfs will most likely not fit on that partition

timber burrow Aug 21, 2025, 1:01 PM

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What size I need to make the new boot partition

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And is it important where is it placed?

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I mean like

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Next to the other boot partition or far away from it

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And how do I make a partition

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I think I'll switch to windows and use the disk management to do that

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Or maybe something on my medicat USB can help

prisma turtle Aug 21, 2025, 1:04 PM

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timber burrow What size I need to make the new boot partition

At least 512 MB

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1 GB is recommended

prisma turtle Aug 21, 2025, 1:04 PM

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timber burrow And is it important where is it placed?

No

timber burrow Aug 21, 2025, 1:04 PM

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Kk

prisma turtle Aug 21, 2025, 1:04 PM

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timber burrow And how do I make a partition

You can use cfdisk or something

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Or Windows lol

timber burrow Aug 21, 2025, 1:05 PM

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I'm using AOMEI partition assistant

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That was the first one i saw while going into partition tools tab on my medicat USB

prisma turtle Aug 21, 2025, 1:05 PM

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Well you better not actually make any partitions on Windows. Just leave unallocated space and format them in Linux

timber burrow Aug 21, 2025, 1:07 PM

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The way I was doing it was to temporarily make a partition in windows and then tell archinstall to do whatever with it is needed

prisma turtle Aug 21, 2025, 1:08 PM

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Yeah that could work too

timber burrow Aug 21, 2025, 1:08 PM

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I've made a 149GB partition which archinstall will later format and I left 1GB unallocated space for the boot partition

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Is this good?

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Will this work, @prisma turtle?

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prisma turtle Aug 21, 2025, 1:16 PM

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Remove the old flags from the previous boot partition

timber burrow Aug 21, 2025, 1:17 PM

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Delete boot and esp flag from the 100mib boot partition?

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Ok.

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Uh

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How

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When I press enter on it I can only delete it, mark/unmark na to format and delete it

prisma turtle Aug 21, 2025, 1:18 PM

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I'm pretty sure it should let you modify the flags

timber burrow Aug 21, 2025, 1:19 PM

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Maybe I can exit archinstall and remove the flags on other way?

prisma turtle Aug 21, 2025, 1:19 PM

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But in that case I don't know - average archinstall experience. I'm not even sure if it matters, because if there's no mountpoint, archinstall won't add the partition to /etc/fstab and should dismiss the flags

timber burrow Aug 21, 2025, 1:20 PM

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Well, do you know someone who knows more about archinstall?

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Or at least what to do here?

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I'm gonna try now assigning mount point /boot to the new boot partition and we'll see how it'll go

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I think it works

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We'll gonna see when it reboots

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Windows booted

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Lemme check bios

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Ok yeah now it works

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I had to change the boot order

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What the

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@prisma turtle pls help

prisma turtle Aug 21, 2025, 1:36 PM

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Okay I'm so sorry

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I didn't realize that you were trying to install Linux on an ntfs partition

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That's not going to happen

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Reinstall

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That's exactly why I told you to format the partitions in Linux

timber burrow Aug 21, 2025, 1:40 PM

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Well shit

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What filesystem do I choose?

prisma turtle Aug 21, 2025, 1:45 PM

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I'd pick ext4

timber burrow Aug 21, 2025, 1:45 PM

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Kk

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Why do you have 2 pfp

prisma turtle Aug 21, 2025, 1:47 PM

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Yeah, now it looks okay, apart from those flags, but we can check that later

prisma turtle Aug 21, 2025, 1:47 PM

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timber burrow Why do you have 2 pfp

I have two pfps, your discord is just bugging out because it's supposed to show you the Boykisser one on this server

timber burrow Aug 21, 2025, 1:48 PM

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Also is it ok that I'm switching to grub instead of leaving it on systemd-boot?

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On the bootloader tab

prisma turtle Aug 21, 2025, 1:48 PM

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Yes, it's okay

timber burrow Aug 21, 2025, 1:48 PM

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What's U2F

prisma turtle Aug 21, 2025, 1:50 PM

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timber burrow Aug 21, 2025, 1:54 PM

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Its installed and working!

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-# Fucking auto focus

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Now how do o make windows appear

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In the boot manager

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So I don't have to go to bios every time

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Is it update-grub

prisma turtle Aug 21, 2025, 1:55 PM

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You enable os-prober in /etc/default/grub and

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grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

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It should detect Windows and add it to grub

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Oh and you need to install os-prober first

timber burrow Aug 21, 2025, 1:56 PM

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How do I enable osprober

prisma turtle Aug 21, 2025, 1:56 PM

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You make sure there's

GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

in /etc/default/grub

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Uncommented

timber burrow Aug 21, 2025, 1:57 PM

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Bruh

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I don't have nano installed

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And even iwctl

prisma turtle Aug 21, 2025, 1:57 PM

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Wi-Fi?

timber burrow Aug 21, 2025, 1:57 PM

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Ye

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Lemme try I've thing

prisma turtle Aug 21, 2025, 1:57 PM

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Did you install and enable NetworkManager?

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If so, try nmcli

timber burrow Aug 21, 2025, 1:57 PM

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I did select it in archinstall

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Nah it's ok I'm using my phone as USB router

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The power of android

prisma turtle Aug 21, 2025, 1:58 PM

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Oh okay

timber burrow Aug 21, 2025, 1:58 PM

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Idk if iphones has that

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Ok

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First of all now, pacman -Syu

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If I'm correct

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Its been a while since I've used arch last time

prisma turtle Aug 21, 2025, 1:59 PM

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That's not necessary on a newly installed system but sure why not

timber burrow Aug 21, 2025, 1:59 PM

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It doesn't harm to run that

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And it's good to double check stuff

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[SOLVED] Trying to install arch, but I got an error.

#[SOLVED] Trying to install arch, but I got an error.